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The barefoot revolution

By Meena Menon

'Illiterate' traditional builders constructing spanking new campuses; semi-literate rural women handling computers, repairing handpumps and solar lighting; miners doubling as health workers; village women working as trained reproductive healthcare workers; barefoot educators with no formal degrees spreading literacy all over the country…..There's a Barefoot Revolution sweeping India, with ordinary, semi-literate people trained in different fields by development organisations leaving their footprints in the remotest parts of the country

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